An Extroverted Managers Guide To…
The Awkwardness of Public Praise and Feedback
How and when to give feedback in an open setting.
“Please give me a heads up if you see something like that coming in the future.”
That was the seemingly innocuous comment that turned the whole meeting sour.
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Each morning I have a meeting with my team where we chat about whats going on and collaborate on technical and process solutions. Mundane updates are recorded in an ongoing written log, but these meetings are for really moving things forward.
It’s quite common for me or other team members to give feedback and offer alternative points of view, but this was different.
The day before, there had been several meetings justifying some work streams. In reality what was being built out was totally necessary (some fixes for a rather critical bug), but it had trickled up the chain of command in a rather vague manner and found itself with a lot of eyes on it.
After talking about the issue I turned to the person in charge of that particular work and noted that if they saw something like this unfolding to let me know in the future, ASAP.
